Re: Infinite loop problem

[Chris Devers]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Xavier Noria wrote:

> On Sep 13, 2005, at 13:00, Vineet Pande wrote:
> 
> > for ( $position=0; $position < length $protein; ++$protein )
> 
> Look at the right, you are incrementing $protein instead of $position.
 
And that's (part of) why the usual Perl idiom is to skip C style loops 
like this one in favor of the simpler, clearer

  foreach $position ( @protein )

which, in general, is a more direct approach to this kind of task.


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Chris Devers

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